Word: newsprint
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sickening on its wire. Reading them on an old Atex computer at my desk at work, where we get several AP wires, frequently makes me ill. The AP reports every major scandal, murder, theft, rape or other gruesome deed that makes the papers, and many too gory to hit newsprint cross the wire as well...
Despite all these changes, it is remarkable at how much has also stayed the same. The Crimson is still a newspaper, printed on newsprint and hand delivered to its subscribers. People read a 1998 Crimson much in the same way they read an 1873 Magenta. With the advent of television and radio, the newspaper still remains the preeminent way to distribute Harvard news...
...Methods of paper distribution will change. With increased personalization of newspapers, distribution will become more costly. Newsprint papers will probably still exist and individual copies will still be sold at central locations. However, personalized newspapers sent electronically to households and printed within the home will develop. Startup services like InfoBeat and Point-Cast will work with and compete with major-metro dailies to provide such services...
...last paper. The ink stains our hands. Were this some other night we might have had to stuff a Section B into the news section by hand. Those nights the ink is up to your elbows, your back and neck ache from leaning over the large, bulky sheets of newsprint. There was no technology to help with things like that...
Tonight, though, it's just the tips of our fingers which get stained. That's enough. I once was told that once newsprint ink gets on your hands, it enters your bloodstream and stays forever...